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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Previews Upcoming Matchup vs. Saints · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: All right, good to see everybody going to be back home.
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Speaker 1: Let's go ahead, coach.
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Speaker 2: If the only thing you knew about two teams in
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Speaker 2: a football game is one was more physical than the other,
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Speaker 2: how much would you be ont be wader which one was.
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Speaker 3: Going to win?
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Speaker 1: What was the other thing that I knew? Well, that's
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Speaker 1: the only thing. I think this is important to play
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Speaker 1: that way. I mean, I don't think that games can
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Speaker 1: go all sorts of different directions. I mean, turn turnover
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Speaker 1: differential are really important. How physical you play does factor
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Speaker 1: into that. I would imagine how you affect the quarterback
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Speaker 1: is going to be a big indicator situation in football.
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Speaker 1: All those things are important, But I mean it's it's
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Speaker 1: a driving force behind how we want to play it
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Speaker 1: and how we want kind of our I don't know
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Speaker 1: formula of how we want to win games, so it's
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Speaker 1: important to us to play that way.
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Speaker 3: When you look at the Saints, it looks like they
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Speaker 3: want to run the ball and use tomorrow. What can
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Speaker 3: you tell about his running style of the way they're
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Speaker 3: using him.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he's been He's been a really good, good
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Speaker 1: player for a while now in in our league. He's
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Speaker 1: got a kind of a smooth speed about him where
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Speaker 1: he has accelerated. It's just such a smoothness to his
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Speaker 1: running style. Doesn't lack physicality. It's a smoother change of direction,
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously like the contact, balanced body control, all
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Speaker 1: that type of all that type of stuff is there.
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Speaker 1: And then him catching the ball to the backfield has
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Speaker 1: always been a something that you have to account for
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Speaker 1: with with with with him, and he's playing at high
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Speaker 1: level right now.
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Speaker 4: So they're doing a good job those.
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Speaker 3: Yards out of the backfield. There have been some of
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Speaker 3: those yards week one and week two for opposing running backs.
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Speaker 3: Is that a point to address or are you willing
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Speaker 3: to give that up if you can stop the No.
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Speaker 1: We we know we need to be better on the
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Speaker 1: catch and run stuff, especially with the backs.
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Speaker 2: The Saints run cover zero at the third highest rate
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Speaker 2: and opponents are averaging negative yards when they're doing it.
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Speaker 2: What does it take to be a good cover zero team?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think I think you've got to be You
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Speaker 4: have to be able to be.
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Speaker 1: You have to be able to adjust when you're not
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Speaker 1: anticipating and they're running it. You have to be able
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Speaker 1: to anticipate it and call it and beat it when
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Speaker 1: they're in it and then you have to be identify
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Speaker 1: it and get the answers when you see it. So
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Speaker 1: it's kind of all those different things and we practice
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Speaker 1: those things all the time on both sides of the ball,
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Speaker 1: and it really just comes out of execution, you know,
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Speaker 1: playing on time, get an ideed right, blocking it up
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Speaker 1: and go making a play. So, yeah, would be a
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Speaker 1: good test for us.
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Speaker 5: You practice physicality in today's NFL.
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Speaker 1: With what you're limited to, well, it's it's tough. I
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Speaker 1: mean sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's like lowering the tempo
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Speaker 1: so your bodies can recover, you know, Like I guess
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Speaker 1: the answer is what's best for the team and how
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Speaker 1: how your guys are going to play the best moving forward.
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Speaker 4: I mean, like today we're in pads.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be important for us to you know, practice
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Speaker 1: hard practice with physicality, also take care of one another,
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Speaker 1: working our pad level.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 1: I think the fundamentals are really important for fundamentals are strong.
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Speaker 4: It's it's uh, it lends the ability to play.
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Speaker 1: With more physicality, you know, so you're not at a whack.
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Speaker 1: You can be in power positions and things like that.
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Speaker 6: You decide to go okay, specifically this week.
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Speaker 1: Why are you in past?
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Speaker 7: Today?
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Speaker 4: Just felt like we need it.
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Speaker 1: We need you know, we need to we need to
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Speaker 1: stay sharp, we need to work our pad level things
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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball that we're always chasing.
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Speaker 1: And this is a good opportunity. You know, on Wednesdays
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Speaker 1: it's a it's a physical day and so let's go
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Speaker 1: get after it.
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Speaker 8: How does that have What have you learned since last
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Speaker 8: year this year in that regard and when to put
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Speaker 8: the gas down and when to give them?
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Speaker 4: I think I think the philosophy is the same, better
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Speaker 4: feel for.
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Speaker 1: How much you know what what tempos we need and
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Speaker 1: when I think you're also just looking at just probably
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Speaker 1: a more open mind on how you can adjust kind
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Speaker 1: of the levels that go into a practice, whether for
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Speaker 1: whatever we need that week. There's some things we did
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Speaker 1: last week we wouldn't have done last last year. And
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Speaker 1: but I think that that goes for offseason program, goes
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Speaker 1: for kind of all levels of our programs.
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Speaker 4: Same same philosophy.
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Speaker 5: You talk Mondy a little bit about, like in the
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Speaker 5: rotation running back with Ken and zackt the way the
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Speaker 5: value you guys want to play and how physical that
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Speaker 5: particular position is. Do you almost need two starters in
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Speaker 5: a sense.
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Speaker 1: At running back in the NFL, I think you need
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Speaker 1: I think you need multiple really good backs. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, don't give me the history lesson here, but
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Speaker 1: I just feel like the in recent history it's hard
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Speaker 1: for to be one bellcl all the time and all
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Speaker 1: these great rushing offenses. Really, any great offense needs multiple backs.
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Speaker 1: So I think we're we're fortunate to have the guys
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Speaker 1: we have.
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Speaker 3: It's not been a mind set shift for offenses or
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Speaker 3: offensive coordinators because there's also the train of thought of
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Speaker 3: letting one of those guys get into rhythm and and
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Speaker 3: just go, and you want to make sure that you
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Speaker 3: feed them. So has there had to be flipping the switch.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there's a balance there, of course, of course,
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Speaker 1: you know, like, uh, from my experience, I haven't like
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Speaker 1: subbed running backs, you know my history. But it's like
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Speaker 1: defensive linemen or linebackers that you're rotating out. It's like
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Speaker 1: if someone that gets a hot hand, they're playing great,
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Speaker 1: probably gonna let them have a little more carries. Or
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Speaker 1: there's just a there's a it's not like a see
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Speaker 1: there's just kind of a art to it, I guess,
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Speaker 1: And it comes down to how your guys are doing
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Speaker 1: and what's going on that.
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Speaker 4: Day to push with AJ.
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Speaker 8: When did that start to become like seem like a
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Speaker 8: possibility for you guys, because that seems like a play
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Speaker 8: that you really can't really work on or get a
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Speaker 8: feel for how good you're going to be at it
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Speaker 8: in the spring.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been working on it all off season. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he get the ball handling so important, so you got
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Speaker 1: to stack all those those reps coming out of the
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Speaker 1: huddle with.
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Speaker 2: Byron Statistically, obviously Sunday it was kind of a breakthrough day,
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Speaker 2: But then was it kind of a matter if he
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Speaker 2: just kind of had the opportunities?
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Speaker 5: Are you seeing his play really progress.
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Speaker 1: From less year? I think he's I mean we've I
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Speaker 1: feel like I've answered Byron's question.
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Speaker 4: It's pretty consistently over the last year.
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Speaker 1: Because I feel like he's played at that level. So
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Speaker 1: I think it's more of a functioning just I'm happy
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Speaker 1: that now they're like the numbers are there, I guess,
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Speaker 1: but I think the tape tells a similar story of
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Speaker 1: how well he's playing. But production does matter, obviously, I mean,
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Speaker 1: especially individually, So I'm happy that that he was able
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Speaker 1: to get the production he got On Sunday you talked
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Speaker 1: about his.
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Speaker 6: Work ethic at his approach, but maybe just with his
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Speaker 6: game specifically, Is there anything that really makes him stand
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Speaker 6: out in his coverage, a technique or anything like that
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Speaker 6: he's really adept at.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say just his like his complete game
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Speaker 1: right now. I mean he was wanted to work on.
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Speaker 1: There's areas in game that like. I like his attitude,
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Speaker 1: like knowing what he wanted to work out and going
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Speaker 1: to the off season, having a plan forward, attacking it.
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Speaker 1: Playing the ball late in the down has been really good.
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Speaker 1: And that's easier said than done. It's just a constant
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Speaker 1: to me, what I'm seeing from a lot of our
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Speaker 1: guys is what takes you to the next level all
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Speaker 1: the time, because once you get to a certain level,
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Speaker 1: it's hard to get it's hard to keep leveling up,
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Speaker 1: and it takes a lot of work to get that
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Speaker 1: incremental game. So you know, stand the course, staying hungry
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Speaker 1: about finding things to get better at, staying determined with
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Speaker 1: that type of stuff. Not maybe maybe get to a plateau,
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Speaker 1: but you gotta you gotta kind of work through all
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Speaker 1: those things. It's it's a constant attention to detail that
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Speaker 1: I think lends himself to be able to improve consistently.
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Speaker 6: Are you talking about like playing the ball laying it
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Speaker 6: down you mean like in a scrambled plaster situation.
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Speaker 1: Or yeah, like when you're in phase of the guy
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Speaker 1: or out of phase on down the field throws.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, not necessarily a scramble drill.
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Speaker 5: Shena didn't play a ton in his first game back
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Speaker 5: in a while. I assume you'll probably want to ramp
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Speaker 5: him up. But just what do you see so far
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Speaker 5: just getting him.
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Speaker 2: Back out there.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's just great to be back. He's gonna he's
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Speaker 4: gonna continually.
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Speaker 1: It's not easy to step in in your first NFL
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Speaker 1: experience and go and play and play a game, and
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Speaker 1: but it's a great first step. It's a great foundation.
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Speaker 1: I think he gained confidence. He's were in a position
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Speaker 1: now where I think you can see some sort of
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Speaker 1: increase to some sort of degree over the next x
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Speaker 1: amount of time. I mean, we're not going to just
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Speaker 1: stick at that play level as long as he's feeling well.
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Speaker 1: So but and also let's you know, have a little
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Speaker 1: bit more rotation at the edge position. So it's kind
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Speaker 1: of good for him, good for everybody type of thing.
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Speaker 2: Imagine that you're not getting as many quick wins in
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Speaker 2: the pass rush as you'd like to see how much
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Speaker 2: you interpreted that to players winning one on ones versus
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Speaker 2: scheme and getting guys set up in the right way.
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Speaker 4: I think, I think it's it's kind of everything.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's some situations where you want to be
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Speaker 1: able to get to pass rush solutions on not necessarily
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Speaker 1: conventional pass downs, so we can be better in that area.
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Speaker 4: I think we've got to stick to our process when we.
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Speaker 1: Are in some of those pass down situations where it
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Speaker 1: did improve probably from the first game, but it's somewhere
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Speaker 1: that we still we want to be. We want to
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Speaker 1: be the best in the world at it, and you've
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Speaker 1: got to keep improving. So how you work together, how
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Speaker 1: you identify situations, all the work that you put on
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Speaker 1: through the week, you know, so you're not just inventing
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Speaker 1: stuff on Sunday, it's stuff that you've worked on throughout
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Speaker 1: the week.
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Speaker 4: Your secondary has been fairly tested in terms of injuries.
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Speaker 2: A couple of weeks in with Nick with DEVI would
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Speaker 2: you say that the depth of the unit at large
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Speaker 2: is the strength that you guys have been able to
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Speaker 2: weather those injuries fair well.
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Speaker 1: I think I think you know, we talk about the seventy.
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Speaker 1: It's that's a critical part of our team. And I
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Speaker 1: think was a is it gonna is gonna be something
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Speaker 1: that we're going to be leaning on to have success
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Speaker 1: over the course of year. Whether it's our DB's or
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Speaker 1: whatever position. There's gonna be times where positions low on
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Speaker 1: guys and we're going to be dependent on those guys
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Speaker 1: to step up and go play. And uh, they did
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Speaker 1: that last week and that's great, But every week we're
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Speaker 1: going to be dealing with that sort of dance. That's
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Speaker 1: the nature of our business.
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Speaker 5: Darian Kendrick Kennon played it a lot of statistically, hadn't
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Speaker 5: played a lot of nickel prior to coming to you
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Speaker 5: guys with prior to this year.
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Speaker 2: What did you guys see in him.
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Speaker 1: That thought you, well, it's a great example of our
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Speaker 1: personnel staff, Willy, you know, identifying guys that, uh, that
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Speaker 1: fit our kind of style of ball, our type of guys,
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Speaker 1: and the skill set that we asked from those positions,
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Speaker 1: and then coming in and look at me when you
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Speaker 1: get into the season.
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Speaker 4: It's not like the coaches are.
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Speaker 1: It's our it's our personal staff that are scouring the
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Speaker 1: league on possible opportunities, and then as coaches, you know,
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Speaker 1: having the open mind they have taken guy in and
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Speaker 1: and going to work and just being you know, being
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Speaker 1: all in on this, on the process to get him
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Speaker 1: ready to play. So typically cap to everybody involved who came.
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Speaker 8: Up with the term ready squad.
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Speaker 4: Uh, it's a great question.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we're scrimmaging out some some names that weren't good,
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Speaker 1: and I guess we brought them like a test audience
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Speaker 1: they had failed.
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Speaker 4: I think just paints a good picture right of what
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Speaker 4: you're trying to create.
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Speaker 1: You want like a growth, like a feeling of growth,
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Speaker 1: You want a feeling of everybody.
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Speaker 4: I think it's pretty good.
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Speaker 8: What was the worst name that got thrown out?
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Speaker 4: Probably can't say it.
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Speaker 5: You've talked about.
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Speaker 6: I think even in the context of Josh and some
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Speaker 6: other guys who have come up and Eddy and you,
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Speaker 6: you kind of view it as like you're excited to
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Speaker 6: see like guys who haven't played yet. Have you always
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Speaker 6: kind of takens the positive outlook on.
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Speaker 1: That or no, no, you learned, you learned things like that.
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Speaker 1: You you you learn how important it is when these
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Speaker 1: things come about about having developmental mindset throughout your whole
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Speaker 1: team on how you coach guys and and now having
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Speaker 1: a plan, a development plan for everybody on your in
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Speaker 1: your program. And I've been on the other end of
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Speaker 1: it too, where guys that had to play and you're
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Speaker 1: you know, not feeling so great, you know, not not
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Speaker 1: as confident, and it's like, well, why why live like this?
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Speaker 4: You don't have to you don't have to live like that.
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Speaker 1: And fortunately we've been in situations where guys have played
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Speaker 1: You're like, man, this guy's been you know, kicking butt
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Speaker 1: and all the and all the stuff that we've seen them,
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Speaker 1: you know, behind closed doors, Like, man, I can't wait
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Speaker 1: for him to go rip it on Sunday, you know,
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Speaker 1: just in a different area and have his opportunities.
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Speaker 4: So it just seems like that it felt like that
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Speaker 4: was the best way to go.
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Speaker 1: And that Mary with John's philosophy too, So it's been
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Speaker 1: it's been fun putting that together.
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Speaker 6: Did something happened maybe to change you're more out your.
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Speaker 1: Outlook on that, Yeah, just don't be miserable person, you know,
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Speaker 1: the a growth minded person.
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Speaker 6: You talked about the rotation dress.
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Speaker 2: What did you get from boy matfe and what.
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Speaker 4: Do you need for him to continue?
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Speaker 2: He did talk about continually.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, one of boys superpowers is some
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Speaker 1: of those quick wins. We saw it on on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: You know, his best reps are as good as anybody
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Speaker 1: in the league. It's just but down in and down out.
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Speaker 1: I think he's playing at a high level right now
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Speaker 1: and he's showing that he can be a three down,
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Speaker 1: every down player and not just situational pass rushers.
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Speaker 4: So I think that's a big compliment to him.
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Speaker 1: And just look, we're in week three, you know, are
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Speaker 1: we Are we satisfied as a team. No, we want
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Speaker 1: to or as individuals, absolutely not. We want to keep
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Speaker 1: chasing this thing so we can keep developing. So my
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Speaker 1: message him was just stick to the process. Doing a
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Speaker 1: great job. Uh, you know, find the incremental gains and
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Speaker 1: go to work.
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Speaker 5: Says stick to the process.
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Speaker 6: Every coach says that.
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Speaker 1: But how do you get players to buy in?
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Speaker 6: And you know, just you see communication leadership from captains.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you have to. It kind of depends me.
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Speaker 1: If you're a if you've got a bunch of vets,
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Speaker 1: you lean on them to show them the way. If
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Speaker 1: you got not as many vets. It's probably more on
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Speaker 1: the coaches. You just got to have a good feel
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Speaker 1: for your team and what people are bringing to the table.
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Speaker 1: It's ultimately my job to steer the ship on where
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Speaker 1: we want to go and that that's that's the messaging
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Speaker 1: coming down from all of our coaches. But I think
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Speaker 1: if you place the emphasis on it, you know, you
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Speaker 1: kind of get what you emphasize to a certain extent.
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Speaker 1: But if you just live like going through the motions,
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Speaker 1: well that's not that's not the The motions is not
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Speaker 1: the process.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 1: The process is getting after it every day and finding
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Speaker 1: incremental gains and finding better ways to do it.
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Speaker 4: And making the process better.
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Speaker 1: Like that's part of the process too, is if something,
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Speaker 1: if the inputs aren't right, well tweak the inputs, you know,
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Speaker 1: so you can get the outputs you want. So, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I know that's our mentality here. I can't speak for
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Speaker 1: everybody else, but what we believe in.
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Speaker 2: Are you expecting Nick and Devin to practice today?
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Speaker 1: Uh No, they will not practice today, Nick and Devon.
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Speaker 1: So what I'm sot like a nickname based, but they
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Speaker 1: won't practice today.
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Speaker 8: Going back a decade ago, when you're first starting in Baltimore.
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Speaker 8: What do you remember about the year you spent on
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Speaker 8: that staff with Gary Kubiak?
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Speaker 1: Uh Man, it was great, got a lot of coffee.
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Speaker 1: He was there early originally when when when I got hired,
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Speaker 1: I was I was kind of slotted to work for
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Speaker 1: him on on offense. I was gonna be an offensive intern.
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Speaker 1: And uh man, I was juiced I got I got
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Speaker 1: to work for Gary Kubiak, Like, it's pretty awesome. And
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Speaker 1: I got there and they're like, well, you're gonna be
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Speaker 1: on defense. That's a pretty good, uh consolation prize. You
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Speaker 1: get to work for the Ravens defense. But just just
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Speaker 1: such a such a steadfast forced with Gary. The humility,
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Speaker 1: the teaching, I thought was just like the expertise and
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Speaker 1: like the simplicity, like how he made it come to life.
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Speaker 1: I made such great things come to life that seemed complicated,
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Speaker 1: but the guys could get I thought that was really cool.
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Speaker 1: Uh dedication to running the ball. Uh he treated everybody
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Speaker 1: with respect in the building. I thought that was awesome.
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Speaker 1: Just you know, you don't you know, to talk to
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Speaker 1: a guy like me, but he's always asking about Georgia
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Speaker 1: and background, and you know.
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Speaker 4: Anytime he came across, he was in a good mood and.
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Speaker 1: Just just just a ton of respect for him.
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Speaker 4: It was a great experience.
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Speaker 8: I still remember a story you told our parts of
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Speaker 8: it about like one of an early offensive meeting in
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Speaker 8: training camp, is something about something he said about running
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Speaker 8: the ball.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Hey, hey, hey guys, look we're gonna run
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Speaker 1: the ball. Okay, We're gonna run the damn ball.
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Speaker 4: And we did.
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Speaker 1: Mike, what do you what did you think?
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Speaker 5: What have you thought about Elijah Roo's first two games?
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Speaker 3: For you?
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Speaker 1: I think he's off to a great start. Another guy that, hey,
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Speaker 1: we got our foot in the ground. Now let's let's
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Speaker 1: let's step on the gas. Let's keep going.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 4: Max doing a tremendous job with them.
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Speaker 1: The vets in the room or are teach them a
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Speaker 1: lot of ball, and I think what I'm most impressed
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Speaker 1: with on the start is how Hardy's planned and and
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Speaker 1: that's going to take them a long way in this league.
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Speaker 3: Look at the Saints defensive front, there's a couple of
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Speaker 3: vets on there. What did you see through the first
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Speaker 3: couple of games? And anythink in Granderson last.
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Speaker 1: Week in particular, H they play hard, they play physical. Uh,
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Speaker 1: they play a lot like how we want to play
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Speaker 1: like square and they put five guys online a lot.
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Speaker 4: They're doing a good job. They're doing really good job.
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Speaker 2: All three of the Saints touchdown passes came to a
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Speaker 2: slaughter receiver this past week. What what do offenses? How
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Speaker 2: they stress defenses differently when they feature slaughter receivers in
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Speaker 2: that way more than outside boundary receivers.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's interesting.
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Speaker 1: I mean, and go any different direction, you know, you
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Speaker 1: got to you account for probably more of the route tree.
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Speaker 4: Tach more middle of the field. Ah, it's a good question.
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Speaker 1: I haven't really thought about it that much, but that's
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Speaker 1: off the top of my head.
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Speaker 5: Where's the Royos blocking right now?
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Speaker 1: I think it's pretty solid. I mean, it's it's he's
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Speaker 1: doing a good job, he's playing hard, he's able. Kind
17:19
Speaker 1: of the same question.
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Speaker 4: What do you thought of Hugh so far?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd just say Gray's is steady, like he's just
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Speaker 1: which is what we need. We need a we need
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Speaker 1: a tough, steadying force and the inside of our offensive line.
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Speaker 1: And I think his chemistry with Charles and Jalen and
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Speaker 1: oulu is.
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Speaker 4: Uh is really cool. That's what we need.
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Speaker 1: Our offensive line and even being a rookie, he's a
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Speaker 1: driving force behind you know, their chemistry, and uh doesn't
17:43
Speaker 1: feel like he's a rookie.
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Speaker 4: I guess it's probably my biggest compiment i'd give him.
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Speaker 7: Dude.
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Speaker 4: Oh he's good, it's good.
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Speaker 5: You mentioned Monday there were some injuries from Pittsburgh, but
17:53
Speaker 5: you didn't originally know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the sky is not falling. What I've learned
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Speaker 1: is you can't like, you can't trust me with the injuries,
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Speaker 1: Like I don't know what I'm talking. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 1: not the expert here. I'm just I'm just. I try
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Speaker 1: to give you as best I can, but within the rules.
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Speaker 1: But I really don'tant to give you too much. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: I'm wrong. All comes from a good place, I promise.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, we got a couple of guys working through
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Speaker 1: some things, but nothing nothing crazy.
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Speaker 7: I'm not sure how much we're talking about from players,
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Speaker 7: and it seems like you guys had a good relationship
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Speaker 7: based on everything we can see. But Gino said a
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Speaker 7: couple of days ago on the Usbian article, jose Smith
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Speaker 7: said that never really felt like he quite a fit here,
18:33
Speaker 7: didn't fit the aesthetic of the organization and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: Did you ever get any kind of sense that or.
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Speaker 4: No. Look I don't have a reaction.
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Speaker 1: You guys were on record on how we feel about
18:44
Speaker 1: you know, you know you know how I feel about them.
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Speaker 4: We love them. I mean I think happy that he's
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Speaker 4: in a great spot. I mean, we all know the
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Speaker 4: history behind it. We loved Gino. Any else, Thank you
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Speaker 4: make it all right. Thanks us